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Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are returning to the stage this spring to star in the new Broadway production, “Hillary and Clinton.” The play, written by Lucas Hnath and directe…
Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the domestic rights to Alex Ross Perry's drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth Moss as a tormented punk rock singer. The deal was announced Thurs…
Camila Cabello is leading the pack of this year’s MTV European Music Awards nominations, it was announced Thursday. The singer-songwriter snagged six nominations including best song…
On Warner Bros.' remake of "A Star Is Born," actor-director Bradley Cooper and co-star Lady Gaga refused to settle for the traditional practice of pre-recording their songs and later lip-syn…
The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll wants to make Broadway part of her kingdom. “Tina,” a new musical based on the life and career of Tina Turner, will debut in New York City …
Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, and Tom Hardy are injecting a little star-power into multiplexes. Following a lackluster September at the box office, “Venom” and “A Star Is Born…
When Bob Dylan’s management team first approached playwright Conor McPherson to create a theater piece using Dylan’s songs, the Irish playwright didn’t exactly leap at the …
"Tootsie," a jaunty new stage musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy that starred Dustin Hoffman, has a real degree of currency to it, and it's not because book writer Robert Horn ("13:…
If you find yourself in a narrow East Village bar adorned with red lights, a precariously perched piano and a sign reading, "Resist, Persist, Keep Dancing," you've stumbled into Alan Cumming…
Trailing clouds of glory from runs at London's Old Vic and on the West End, Conor McPherson's Depression-era treatment of classic Bob Dylan material vividly transforms individual songs into …
Ansel Elgort has been cast as Tony in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Broadway musical "West Side Story.” Pulitzer prize winner and Oscar nominee Tony Kushner penned the rev…
In the age of streaming " and with studios like Disney and Warner Bros. taking over more theater turf " it's clear that the landscape of American theater is changing. At Variety's inaugur…
In a recent interview with "Saturday Night Live" boss Lorne Michaels, he said that Kanye West was not the first choice as the musical guest on this weekend's season premiere: Michaels says i…
"I am a fish and snooker is my sea," says Dylan Spokes, an aspiring marlin of a player in "The Nap," the delightfully loopy comedy by the "One Man, Two Guvnors" playwright Richard Bean. Even…
We’re far from the shallow now. You know that song that’s been stuck in your head; the one that Lady Gaga belts out when Bradley Cooper brings her up on stage in the trailer for …
The personal is political. Politics is personal. Few plays understand either statement as fully as "Antony and Cleopatra." In showing us the private lives of politicians — the great lo…
Tony Goldwyn has joined the cast of “Network.” The stage adaptation of the film classic is one of the year’s most hotly anticipated Broadway productions and boasts serious …
Love the boots! The sexy black ones that Tony winner Janet McTeer (“Sorry For Your Loss,” “Ozark”) dons to play the actress Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Hamlet are …
Andrew Dice Clay had some tough competition to play the father of Lady Gaga’s character in “A Star Is Born.” After all, he was up against legendary actors like Robert De Ni…
"Can I walk up to the microphone again?" Patti Smith asks the audience gathered at the Minetta Lane Theater for her "Words and Music" retrospective. "I feel like the way I just did it, I loo…
Four years after working with Sam Mendes on the Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” Emma Stone is stepping in front of the director’s camera for a new film celebrating Louis Vui…
Bryan Cranston has had an illustrious career over the decades, winning four Emmy awards for his portrayal of anti-hero Walter White on “Breaking Bad” and a Tony Award for “…
For nearly a decade, National Theatre Live has brought live theater from London's acclaimed Royal National Theatre to a global audience, broadcasting productions such as "Hamlet" and "War Ho…
With the midterm elections looming, Sharr White's bruising political drama about real-life machine politics in 1977 Albany lands at an opportune moment to educate us on how the real pros use…
Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” HBO’s “Barry,” Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and CBS’ “Young Sheldon” are among the TV n…